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Do you know what it's like to love someone so much, that you can't see yourself without picturing her? Or what it's like to touch someone, and feel like you've come home? What we had wasn't about sex, or about being with someone just to show off what you've got, the way it was for other kids our age. We were, well, meant to be together. Some people spend their whole lives looking for that one person. I was lucky enough to have her all along..
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completeness
consummate
couples
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Jodi Picoult |
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Can you hate someone for what they have done, but still love them for whom they had been?
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Jodi Picoult |
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I don't think we get a choice in who we fall for," Ian whispers. "I think we just do."
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romance
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Jodi Picoult |
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In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child.
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mourning
loss
inadequacy-of-words
lose
english
language
parent
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Jodi Picoult |
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c804a7c
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See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it
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mourning
inspirational
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Jodi Picoult |
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Sometimes when you pick up your child you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or smell the scent of your skin in the nape of his neck. This is the most extraordinary thing about motherhood - finding a piece of yourself separate and apart that all the same you could not live without.
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Jodi Picoult |
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So much of the language of love was like that: you devoured someone with your eyes, you drank in the sight of him, you swallowed him whole. Love was substance, broken down and beating through your bloodstream.
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love
possessiveness
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Jodi Picoult |
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A real friend isn't capable of feeling sorry for you.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Do you know how sometimes - when you are riding your bike and you start skidding across sand, or when you miss a step and start tumbling down the stairs - you have those long, long seconds to know that you are going to be hurt, and badly?
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foreboding
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Jodi Picoult |
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325c974
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How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?
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mourning
loss
death
heart
love
casket
funeral
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Jodi Picoult |
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1c2f6e7
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When you don't fit in, you become superhuman. You can feel everyone else's eyes on you, stuck like Velcro. You can hear a whisper about you from a mile away. You can disappear, even when it looks like you're still standing right there. You can scream, and nobody hears a sound. You become the mutant who fell into the vat of acid, the Joker who can't remove his mask, the bionic man who's missing all his limbs and none of his heart. You are th..
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Jodi Picoult |
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You couldn't have strength without weakness, you couldn't have light without dark, you couldn't have love without loss
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opposites
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Jodi Picoult |
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There are always sides. There is always a winner and a loser. For every person who gets, there's someone who must give.
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Jodi Picoult |
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People always say that, when you love someone, nothing in the world matters. But that's not true, is it? You know, and I know, that when you love someone, everything in the world matters a little bit more.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.
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religion
god
inspirational
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Jodi Picoult |
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If you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.
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solitude
reality
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Jodi Picoult |
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You know someone's right for you when the things they don't to say are even more important than the things they do.
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relationships
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Jodi Picoult |
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Change is a funny thing. We never are quite sure what we are becoming or even why. Then one day we look at ourselves and wonder who we are and how we got that way. Only one thing about change remains constant...it is always painful
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Jodi Picoult |
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You can't exist in this world without leaving a piece of yourself behind.
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Jodi Picoult |
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When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself.
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revenge
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Jodi Picoult |
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When we're awake, we see what we need to see. When we're asleep, we see what is really there.
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Jodi Picoult |
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It took me a lifetime to realizethings don't get lost if they don't have value- you don't miss what you don't care about.
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Jodi Picoult |
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There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Someone real," I hear myself saying. "Someone who never has to pretend, and who I never have to pretend around. Someone who's smart, but knows how to laugh at himself. Someone who would listen to a symphony and start to cry, because he understands music can be too big for words. Someone who knows me better than I know myself. Someone I want to talk to first thing in the morning and last thing at night. Someone I feel like I've known my whol..
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relationships
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Jodi Picoult |
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I didn't want to see her because it would make me feel better. I came because without her, it's hard to remember who I am...
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Jodi Picoult |
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What if love wasn't the act of finding what you were missing but the give-and-take that made you both match?
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Jodi Picoult |
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As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.
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Jodi Picoult |
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words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder.
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words
joy
wonder
limits
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Jodi Picoult |
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Shooting stars are not stars at all. They re just rocks that enter the atmosphere and catch fire under friction. What we wish on when we see one is only a trail of debris.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.
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wonder
narrow-mindedness
open-mindedness
growing-up
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Jodi Picoult |
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How could he convey to someone who'd never even met her the way she always smelled like rain, or how his stomach knotted up every time he saw her shake loose her hair from its braid? How could he describe how it felt when she finished his sentences, turnec the mug they were sharing so that her mouth landed where his had been? How did he explain the way they could be in a locker room, or underwater, or in the piney woods of Maine, bus as lon..
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love
devotion
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Jodi Picoult |
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Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, 'You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.' It's saying, 'You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.
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future
past
trap
yourself
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Jodi Picoult |
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All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.
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meaning
love
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Jodi Picoult |
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There are some things we do because we convince ourselves it would be better for everyone involved. We tell ourselves that it's the right thing to do, the altruistic thing to do. It's far easier than telling ourselves the truth.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Normal, in our house, is like a blanket too short for a bed--sometimes it covers you just fine, and other times it leaves you cold and shaking; and worst of all, you never know which of the two it's going to be.
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uncertainty
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Jodi Picoult |
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Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far.
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simile
humor
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Jodi Picoult |
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Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.
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words
truth
salem-falls
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Jodi Picoult |
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All teenagers knew this was true. The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been slammed in your face. For years, parents tell you that you can be anything, have anything, do anything. That was why she'd been so eager to grow up-until she got to adolescence and hit a big fat wall ofreality. As it turned out, she couldn't have anything she wanted. You didn't get to be pretty or smart or popular just b..
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Jodi Picoult |
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What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?
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forgiveness
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Jodi Picoult |
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He insisted that stars were people so well loved, they were traced in constellations, to live forever
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constellations
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Jodi Picoult |
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Bad is not an absolute, but a relative term. Ask the robber who used the cash he stole to feed his infant; the rapist who was sexually abused as a child; the kidnapper who truly believed he was saving a life. And just because you break the law doesn't mean you have intentionally crossed the line into evil. Sometimes the line creeps up on you, and before you know it, you're standing on the other side.
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Jodi Picoult |
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Three months ago, if you asked me, I would have told you that if you really loved someone, you'd let them go. But now I look at you, and I dreamed about Maggie, and I see that I've been wrong. If you really love someone, Allie, I think you have to take them back.
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true-love
letting-go
hearbreak
forgiving
giving-up
loving
mercy
forgiveness
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Jodi Picoult |